Liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America attempted to smear Internet gossip columnist Matt Drudge for attempting to smear Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) by linking to an Associated Press report that falsely suggested that Kerry and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar (R-IN) "may have blown" the cover of CIA officer Fulton Armstrong.
Rather than direct their watchdog ire at the Associated Press (who were responsible for the story), or the major newspapers that ran the story like The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian UK, The New York Post, etc., Media Matters elects to attack Matt Drudge for merely linking to the story. Examples of the headlines are shown below:
Los Angeles Times - Senators May Have Blown Cover of CIA Agent
Drudge headline - Kerry Blows CIA Agent Cover?...
Drudge's transgression appears to modifying an AP headline to focus on Kerry, while ignoring Lugar. No offense to Senator Lugar, but his name hardly captures reader interest the way a former candidate for President does. Nowhere does Media Matters accuse mainstream news outlets of attempting to smear Kerry (or Lugar) by running the AP story, that honor is reserved for the one site that merely linked to a wire service copy of the article. By leading off with an attack on Drudge, Media Matters shifts the focus off the real story - the shoddiness of Associated Press reporter Anne Gearan's research. Even rudimentary web research on the name Fulton Armstrong indicates that his "cover" was not blown.
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Drudge Derangement Syndrome... (Below threshold)1. Posted by McGehee | April 12, 2005 5:29 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Drudge Derangement Syndrome?
1. Posted by McGehee | April 12, 2005 5:29 PM |
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Posted on April 12, 2005 17:29
2. Posted by Steve | April 12, 2005 5:50 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Media Matters are acting like a bunch of idiots? I'm shocked...shocked I say!
2. Posted by Steve | April 12, 2005 5:50 PM |
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Posted on April 12, 2005 17:50
3. Posted by Just Me | April 12, 2005 6:01 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Media matters are basically schills for the MSM.
3. Posted by Just Me | April 12, 2005 6:01 PM |
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Posted on April 12, 2005 18:01
4. Posted by -S- | April 12, 2005 6:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Media Matters...funded by Soros, to a great degree, yes?
I do note of late a huge ramping up of the ankle-biting gossip-mongering by the left media to and about anyone else. I think it's time for a line to be drawn, though I have no idea how that would be/could be represented.
They'll denigrate by any means possible -- mostly deceptive, dishonest means -- anyone who isn't controllable, who isn't beating their stupid tin foil drums.
Unfortunately, they seem to sucker in a certain number of readers based upon pretty colors on websites. Cigarette manufacturers do the same thing.
4. Posted by -S- | April 12, 2005 6:41 PM |
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Posted on April 12, 2005 18:41
5. Posted by FloridaOyster | April 12, 2005 8:59 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Adios hypocrites" Lord I wish he meant that.
5. Posted by FloridaOyster | April 12, 2005 8:59 PM |
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Posted on April 12, 2005 20:59
6. Posted by Darleen | April 12, 2005 9:40 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I'm in the Republican Party
[looks down pants]
Nope, no penis.
6. Posted by Darleen | April 12, 2005 9:40 PM |
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Posted on April 12, 2005 21:40
7. Posted by Am I A Pundit Now? | April 12, 2005 9:46 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Doesn't Oliver Willis work for Media Matters?
7. Posted by Am I A Pundit Now? | April 12, 2005 9:46 PM |
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Posted on April 12, 2005 21:46
8. Posted by -S- | April 13, 2005 12:56 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yes, Darleen, you're right about that: Democrats, the party of asses.
8. Posted by -S- | April 13, 2005 12:56 AM |
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Posted on April 13, 2005 00:56
9. Posted by Big Bang Hunter | April 13, 2005 1:46 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
- The MSM is athwart in the massive failures of the past 5 years and the rise of the blogmecca. Did anyone of us suppose for a minute they would take their demise lying down and go quietly. Not a day goes by that some other non-reality news release ends up biting them on the ass. To think they won't inflate, embellish, and just plain manufacture any bad press they can is to ignore the deep anger they hold for all things conservative, and the blogsphere's voice on the right. I can no longer see any noticable difference between The National Inquirer and any MSM rag you care to name. They of the left continue to "blow their own cover" every day of the week. Tis a real pity we no longer have two viable parties in this country.
9. Posted by Big Bang Hunter | April 13, 2005 1:46 AM |
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Posted on April 13, 2005 01:46
10. Posted by Jill | April 13, 2005 2:22 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Poor David Brock. With all the massive liberal media attacks on Republicans lately, he has to come up with SOMETHING this week to give George Soros his money's worth. Even he knows how pathetic he is. But when you're a whore for a guy who has been indicted in France recently for fraud,......what do any of us expect.
What a pathetic sad soul.......
10. Posted by Jill | April 13, 2005 2:22 AM |
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Posted on April 13, 2005 02:22
11. Posted by Mark | April 13, 2005 7:26 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Come on, you're talking about a group led by an admitted liar, and whose most absurd act being a "media watchdog" was to protest AL MICHAELS for making a joke about John Kerry's flip flopping on a Monday Night Football broadcast.
11. Posted by Mark | April 13, 2005 7:26 AM |
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Posted on April 13, 2005 07:26
12. Posted by David in AK | April 13, 2005 2:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Just checking--do any of you actually read Media Matters, or do you just let your leaders tell you what to think about it? You would be a lot more convincing if you could factually refute Media Matters' critiques of the media. Even in this particular case, most of the Media Matters piece was critical of the AP story, criticizing Drudge only for his headline...which is pretty much what you guys are doing, come to think of it.
12. Posted by David in AK | April 13, 2005 2:04 PM |
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Posted on April 13, 2005 14:04
13. Posted by Big Bang Hunter | April 13, 2005 2:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
- Yes.... Some of us actually review it, if for no other reason to see what Soros is up to next.....
13. Posted by Big Bang Hunter | April 13, 2005 2:23 PM |
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Posted on April 13, 2005 14:23
14. Posted by Jill | April 13, 2005 9:21 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Mark, LOL, thanks for reminding me about the Al Michaels one -- I remember laughing my head off when I heard about that "outrage"......
Again, poor David Brock......
14. Posted by Jill | April 13, 2005 9:21 PM |
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Posted on April 13, 2005 21:21